5.3.1: Construct an explanation that plants use air, water, and energy from…

Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? Grade 5

Where a plant's food comes from, what happens when the wolves disappear, who cleans up, and how much life hides under a log. Four lessons on how energy and matter move through living things.

• Where does a plant get its food? 50–60 min, plus 10 min to weigh seedlings two weeks later

  Students sink spinach leaf disks in baking soda water and watch them float back up in the light as they make oxygen, then start bean seedlings with no soil at all and weigh them two weeks later. They explain that plants build their food from air and water using light, not from the soil.

Printable practice for 5.3.1

These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to 5.3.1 is partial.

• Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook included with the unit

  2 practice pages, 2 readings, 1 word wall, 1 English-support page, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.

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